MAFS Australia's Melinda on 'world domination' and becoming her season's success story

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Charades has closed multiple deals on “There’s Something in the Barn,” Magnus Martens’s (“Fear the Walking Dead”) comedy horror movie from “Dead Snow” producers at 74 Entertainment and XYZ Films. The English-language movie is headlined by Martin Starr (“Freaks and Geeks,” “Spider Man”), Amrita Acharia (“Game of Thrones”) and Jeppe Beck Laursen (“The Last Kingdom”).

Pete Doherty documentary Stranger In My Own Skin have been revealed. Watch full trailer for the film above.Previously announced as debuting at Zurich Film Festival, Peter Doherty — Stranger In My Own Skin is directed by the Libertines and Babyshambles singer’s wife Katia deVidas, who also plays in his other solo outfit band The Puta Madres.Now, it has been announced that the film will hit cinemas from November 9, 2023 – with screenings taking place in the UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Canada, Ireland and Austria.A synopsis describes the feature-length documentary as “following English punk singer-songwriter and Libertines’ legendary frontman, Peter Doherty, as he plunges into the depths of addiction at the very height of his popularity.“Over a period of 10 years, the artist was intimately filmed by director-musician Katia deVidas who shot more than 200 hours of exclusive footage.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Top actor Asher Keddie will co-produce and star opposite David Wenham in Paramount+ Australia’s freshly-commissioned “Fake” drama-thriller series. Keddie has a long TV career with recent credits including “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” “Nine Perfect Strangers” and “Stateless.” Her movie credits include smaller roles in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” and eccentric comedy “Rams.” Wenham’s filmography includes “SeaChange,” “Elvis,” “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers & The Return of the King.” “Fake” follows Keddie’s character, a smart and brilliant writer who thinks she has found her ideal match when she meets a successful rancher, portrayed by Wenham, on a dating app. But after she commits, she discovers that her boyfriend isn’t all he has led her to believe. The show is inspired by the book “Fake” by Stephanie Wood and was created for television by renown screenwriter, Anya Beyersdorf with award-winner director, Emma Freeman (“Secret City,” “Glitch,” “The Newsreader”). The eight- part series is produced by Kindling Pictures’ Imogen Banks (“Safe Home,” “Offspring”) and Emelyne Palmer (“Safe Home,” “RFDS”).

Fall film festivals are usually where we look for the more serious awards bait pictures, but occasionally as with tonight’s rousing World Premiere of Taikia Waititi’s long-gestating American Somoan soccer comedy, Next Goal Wins, you get a real commercial crowd pleaser.

Spanish football player Jenni Hermoso has been pictured back in training for the first time since she accused president of the Spanish football federation Luis Rubiales of kissing her on the lips without her consent. The incident occurred after Spain took home the trophy at the FIFA World Cup final in Australia last month when Luis was seen kissing Jenni on the lips during the presentation celebration.

Married At First Sight Australia star Martha Kalifatidis has shared that she was left terrified after her seven-month-old son Lucius came down with a mystery illness. The Aussie TV star, 34, opened up about the health scare on Instagram, sharing that it was the "scariest 48 hours" of her and her partner Michael Brunelli's lives. Posting a number of photos of Lucius to her Instagram Story, Martha wrote: "Hi everyone, we just had the scariest 48 hours of our lives.

Dave Stewart has announced a UK and European tour featuring Eurythmics‘ greatest hits.Entitled ‘Eurythmics Songbook: Sweet Dreams 40th Anniversary Tour’, this will see Stewart hit the road with an female band for a series of shows which will mark 40 years since the band’s breakthrough album ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’.It comes after Stewart previously played a one-off show at the London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2019 featuring the band’s greatest songs, with the blessing of Annie Lennox, who no longer tours.The new dates, which kick off off in Switzerland on November 7, also include two UK shows at the Sunderland Empire on November 10 and the London Palladium on November 17.The tour wraps up in the Netherlands on November 28. Tickets are on pre-sale now and can be purchased here.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Abacus Media Rights has pre-sold the feature documentary “The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee,” to Sky Arts, SBS Television Australia; to NonStop Entertainment for Scandinavia, Iceland and the Baltics and to Movistar for Spain. Lee is known as the Dracula character and for transitioning from 1960s Hammer horror films to a distinguished acting career that encompassed James Bond films, the “Star Wars” and “Lord of the Rings” franchises. Less well-known are his aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, Lee’s wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, post-war Nazi-hunting adventures and a side career as a heavy metal rock singer. As an actor, Lee achieved a Guinness world record for the highest number of screen appearances. Produced in association with the British Film Institute and Trigger Films by Canal Cat Films, “Life and Deaths” is an innovative documentary which uses fresh interviews, archive material and multiple forms of traditional and cutting-edge animation, including marionation, to bring one of the world’s leading actors back to life on screen.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first trailer for Liam Neeson crime-thriller In The Land Of Saints And Sinners, which debuts tomorrow at the Venice Film Festival.

Olivia Frazer has announced the sad passing of her beloved nan, just days after her great uncle, her nan's twin brother, also passed away.The Married At First Sight Australia star, 29, shared the tragic news on her Instagram Story, where she wrote: "You couldn't write this stuff. "My beautiful Nanna, Jill, has followed her twin brother, Jack, to the other side within two days.The 'twin thing' was a reoccurrence throughout their whole lives, so it seems fitting here.

Paramount+ has announced it will premiere William Friedkin’s last film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial in all international markets where the service is currently live.

Australian soaps have undeniably produced some international superstars over the years.Two of the biggest successes are clearly Neighbours alumni Kylie Minogue (who played Charlene) – the highest-selling Australian recording artist of all time, with more than 80 million albums sold worldwide – and Margot Robbie (Donna), star of the runaway movie success Barbie, that's broken 17 box office records to date. But other notable stars who've gone from Aussie soapland to bigger things include Home and Away's Ryan Kwanten (who played Vinnie), Isla Fisher (Shannon) and Chris Hemsworth (Kim) as well as Neighbours' Jason Donovan (Scott), Guy Pearce (Mike) and Jesse Spencer (Billy).

Miranda Kerr is pregnant with her fourth child! The Australian beauty, 40, announced the exciting news Friday on her Snapchat account.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Susan Sarandon, playing the U.S. Secretary of State Alaska Adams, gets the better of Bryan Brown, as the Australian prime minister, in a fast-paced verbal duel that represents the first footage from the Sean Penn-produced satirical comedy series “C*A*U*G*H*T.” An elite team of Aussie soldiers is sent to an island nation to retrieve a secret file that has gone astray.

MAFS Australia reality star Olivia Frazer 'feels like a fool' after moving from Down Under to Scotland for a man who had a girlfriend.

Primetime Emmy winning producer Bruna Papandrea is looking to sell her production company Made Up Stories per sources.

England will play against Fiji on Saturday, with the last game before the Rugby World Cup pitting Steve Borthwick's side against a potential quarter-final opponent in the tournament.

Maya Jama, who hosts the British version of Love Island, is heading to Fiji.

Home and Away viewers recently saw the arrival of new character Tegan to Summer Bay, claiming to be Andrew’s half sister. Tegan, played by Sophia Forrest, has made it clear about their desire to get to know Andrew better.The two have already started bonding over shared childhood trauma and fans will have to wait and see where this storyline leads... Who is Sophia Forrest? In a vastly different life from that of their Home and Away character, Sophia Forrest is the child of one of Australia’s wealthiest families.

Billy Ray Cyrus and his fiancée, Firerose, have made their red carpet debut.